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Police, security subdue disorderly person at Sea-World www.privateofficer.com
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A sweaty, shirtless man on LSD was shot with a stun gun several times after trying to enter SeaWorld Orlando without paying, according to an Orange County sheriff’s report released Wednesday.
Nicholas Casanova, 23, of Miami, wielded a more than 30-inch-wide recycling bin cover as a shield and repeatedly shouted “never, never!” during a scuffle with deputies about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Minutes before the scuffle, Deputy Christopher Barrette, a uniformed, off-duty deputy, spotted Casanova trying to enter the park without paying. He was shirtless, which is a violation of park rules, and sweated profusely, the report states.
Barrette approached him, and Casanova left. He re-entered about 5 minutes later and exited, and the deputy approached again. Casanova ignored him, so the deputy touched him on his right arm.
Casanova broke away, beginning the scuffle that would land him in the Orange County Jail.
Worried Casanova would act violently against nearby park guests, the deputy tackled him, and a security guard sat on his legs. Casanova broke free, and Barrette shocked him with a stun gun.
“Never,” Casanova said.
Barrette shot him again.
“Never,” Casanova repeated. Barrette fired once more.
“OK, OK,” Casanova replied.
But when Barrette tried to handcuff him, Casanova fought, and Barrette received a minor cut from the handcuff.
Casanova made his way to a bench near a recycling can as Barrette shocked him repeatedly, then grabbed the can’s lid and swung it at the deputy. Afterward, he ran to a rope fence and tried to jump into a nearby water feature.
Deputies used the rope to restrain Casanova. He was taken to Dr. P. Philips Hospital, where tests showed he had LSD in his bloodstream.
Casanova faces counts of battery on a law-enforcement officer, battery on a security officer, resisting an officer with violence, disorderly conduct, aggravated assault on a law-enforcement officer, and assault on a licensed uniformed security officer.
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Frequent shoplifter nabbed again www.privateofficer.com
Police reponded on April 21 at 5:30 p.m. to assist security agents at the Marshalls store located in the Arsenal Mall on Arsenal Street for a shoplifting report.
Security was detaining a female shoplifter who had attempted to flee with unpaid merchandise.
Jaime L. Lyons, 43, of 54 West Concord St. 4 in Boston was arrested for larceny and outstanding warrants.
According to store security personnel, she allegedly had taken about $150 worth of items off racks and placed them in a Target shopping bag she had brought into the store.
Lyons was charged with shoplifting over $100 worth of merchandise and on two shoplifting warrants.
Lyons was transported to the jail and was being held on a bond release.
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Charlotte teacher arrested for student relationship www.privateofficer.com
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Youth Crime/Domestic Violence detectives signed warrants on Ryan Patrick Marshall (DOB 3/5/1972) for taking indecent liberties with a child and disseminating harmful material to minors.
At approximately 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, Mr. Marshall was arrested without incident at 2329 Century Oaks Lane by University City Division officers.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Law Enforcement worked in a collaborative effort throughout this entire investigation.
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Guard charged with computer thefts www.privateofficer.com
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A former security guard at a Johnstown business is accused of stealing nearly $50,000 in company computers.
And as police closed in, authorities said, he took 80 of the computers into a wooded area and set them on fire.
Nathan Patrick Binnie, 26, of Iolite Avenue, Johnstown, was charged by city detectives with burglary, arson, criminal trespass, receiving stolen property, tampering with evidence and conspiracy.
In an affidavit of probable cause, police said that 94 computers – towers, monitors, keyboards and a mouse for each – were stolen from a storage facility of Intermedia Marketing, 1003 Broad St.
Binnie was a security guard and quit after it was discovered the equipment was missing, police said.
Witnesses told police they saw a blue van in the area during the week in January when the equipment was stolen. That led police to question Binnie, who drove a blue Dodge Caravan.
At least two people said Binnie stashed some of the computers at their homes, police said.
Binnie later admitted taking the equipment, authorities said.
After news of the incident got out, he took about 80 of the machines into a wooded area behind St. Therese Roman Catholic Church on Decker Avenue and set them on fire, authorities said.
Binnie was arraigned Monday by District Judge Max Pavlovich of Richland Township, the on-call magistrate, and sent to the Cambria County Prison after failing to post $50,000 bond
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Teacher arrested for having sex with 10yr old www.privateofficer.com
Investigators say Gina Marie Watring had intercourse with the child on at least two occasions in April –the first, three weeks ago and a second last Tuesday. Durham officials will not comment about where the incidents happened.
Watring is faces two counts of first-degree sex offense with a student.
Creekside Elementary School is on Ephesus Church Road in south Durham. She was a teacher’s assistant in music and dance.
Her name is no longer listed in the school’s online directory, but a description of her courses are still laid out for parents to see.
One parent says she’s speechless and describes Watring as a nice woman.
School officials say Watring started working at Creekside in November 2006. She is no longer working for the school as of Tuesday.
A source tells Eyewitness News that Watring’s cell phone records, including text messages and a computer, are part of an on going investigation.
School officials say they will not release a statement on the matter.
Watring turned herself in to investigators on Wednesday. She is currently in the Durham County Jail. Her bond is set at $100,000.
Watring’s first court appearance is scheduled for Thursday morning
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NC Police arrest 17 security guards in sweep www.privateofficer.com
The News & Record of Greensboro reported that police targeted six clubs over the weekend. The sweep occurred after three major crimes, including a homicide, happened at clubs since Easter. Assistant Greensboro Police Chief Dwight Crotts said the checks weren’t in response to the crimes and already had been planned.
State law requires that anyone working as a security guard or bouncer be licensed or be employees of the club where they are working.
Police said two bouncers were armed and another was charged with possession with intent to sell marijuana.
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Tulsa police, security team up to fight crime www.privateofficer.com
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There’s a new security force in some high crime neighborhoods. It’s a partnership that officers say targets a source of the problem in many crime-ridden areas and apartment complexes.
It’s an effort between Tulsa police officers and security guards at housing complexes. Officers say its good for those who live in the complexes and those who live nearby. James Stevenson lives just doors down from one of the housing complexes in North Tulsa and knows a lot of people who live there, he says they too are fed up with violence. He says he’s lost several friends in senseless shootings, one of his friends remains in critical condition from the shooting that happened at a housing complex last week, police say an innocent victim.
“We’ve been having problems with a lot of the complexes in north Tulsa ,” says Tulsa Police Officer Heather Weakley. Officers are now expanding their efforts to take a proactive approach to stop the crime in a place where they say it often starts.
“We know a lot of the problems are from those sources,” says Weakley. “Tulsa police does strive to have a good working relationship with the complexes.”
Now officers are working with security guards at the complexes. “It makes it a lot easier they’re are eyes and ears,” says Weakley.
Aaron is the Vice-President of “Global Elite Security” he supervises more than thirty security officers in housing complexes throughout Tulsa. He’s seen the difference working together can make.
“It is helpful it does decrease on the amount of crime, drugs, and violence.” Now James and others hope it makes a difference in their community.
“I know a lot of this crimes that’s going on they can stop it,” says Stevenson.
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Gwinnett County deputy sheriff killed in dispute www.privateofficer.com
wbstv.com — An off-duty Gwinnett County sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed early Thursday morning.
Corporal D. P. Schiralli, the spokesman for the Gwinnett County police department, sent an e-mail to WSB-TV Channel 2 saying the deputy was shot at 2770 Austin Ridge Drive in Dacula.
Gwinnett Sheriff Butch Conway told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution the man, who he described as an experienced deputy, was shot during a domestic dispute.
Officers found the victim at the house and he was taken to Gwinnett County Medical Center where he died.
Officials at the sheriff’s department identified the victim as Don Bassett, a 17 year veteran of the department.
Police are questioning a woman who was inside the house when they arrived. They identified her as Morgan Schrader.
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Second driver charged in drag racing deaths in Charlotte www.privateofficer.com
Carlene Atkinson, 44, turned herself in to police Tuesday.
Police said she was racing 20-year-old Tyler Stasko earlier this month when Stasko crashed into another car, killing a woman, her 2-year-old daughter and a boy in his car.
Atkinson is facing three counts of second-degree murder.
Stasko bonded out of jail last week.
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Security officer injured in crash www.privateofficer.com
By: Rick McCann
Authorities said that an accident involving a moving truck sent a private security officer to the hospital with minor injuries yesterday. Police said that the truck collided with a guard shack at The Waterfront at Puuloa .
Rescue responders said that a security guard with Securitas was injured slightly, but was seen walking after the accident but she was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital for observation.
Police are investigating the accident and are not sure what caused the crash.
Police did not release the names of the driver or the security officer.
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Security officers aid in burglary arrest www.privateofficer.com
Colorado Springs officers were dispatched to the Citadel Mall, late Tuesday morning, regarding a possible car break-in in progress.
As the officers responded, Mall Security advised CSPD Dispatchers that the suspect was running westbound. Officer Scott Carnes checked the neighborhood west of the mall and observed a suspect matching the description given by mall security.
The suspect ducked into the backyards of Kingsley as other units set up a tight perimeter. K-9 officers were requested and responded quickly. Immediately upon initiating a K9 search, the suspect was found hiding in a large trash can with its lid closed.
Officers learned the suspect was 19 year-old Michael Swanson who was also wanted on a Felony warrant in another case. Swanson was arrested for attempted Motor Vehicle theft.
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Recent shoplifting arrests in Natick www.privateofficer.com
NATICK – A Worcester woman was arrested Friday and charged with shoplifting over $100in merchandise, police said.
Jartu Treh, 22, of 150 Chandler St., was arrested at the J.C. Penney at 2:03 p.m., police said
MILFORD – A North Providence, R.I., man was arrested Friday at Kohl’s Department store on Medway Road, police said.
Steven M. Verdone, 45, of 24 Olney Ave., Floor 3, was charged with shoplifting merchandise valued over $100 and larceny over $250, police said.
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Riding an ATV could land Alabamians in jail www.privateofficer.com
All-terrain vehicles roaring down roadsides are causing erosion and landslides and wreaking havoc on construction projects, according to the Alabama Department of Transportation.
About a month ago, the department extended an offer to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office: Patrol state and federal roadways for illegal ATV driving, and ALDOT will pay the deputies’ hourly wages while they search, according to Sheriff’s Office officials
Since then, deputies have issued 43 trespassing citations to ATV drivers, according to ALDOT records as of late last week.
The citations have been for riding along Interstate 10 and the unopened portion of the new U.S. 98, according to the records.
Recently, deputies arrested three ATV drivers for trespassing. One was taken into custody for a previous warrant, and another on a drug possession charge, according to ALDOT.
“We get eight to 10 calls a day from people complaining about ATV riders,” said Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Wayne Goolsby, who oversees the ATV patrols. “And we probably make two to three arrests each weekend.”
Goolsby’s rule: “If it’s not your property or you don’t have a prior agreement, you’re not supposed to be on it.”
First-time offenders are issued a warning, and Goolsby said their names are put on a computerized list to ferret out repeat offenders. More than 400 names are on the list.
Second-time offenders are ticketed and can be arrested, Goolsby said.
ALDOT spokeswoman Rebecca Leigh White said the department is pushing enforcement in Mobile County alone because “that’s where we are predominantly seeing damage, and in our initial effort, we are concentrating on where the damage has been most severe.
Tony Harris, special assistant to ALDOT’s director, said that ATV’s have caused more than $300,000 in damage statewide so far this year.
“Damage caused by ATVs along state roadways and rights-of-way has a bottom-line impact on the taxpayers,” Harris said in a release.
In 2008, the state spent more than $100,000 to repair slope damage caused by ATVs, so there is an obvious worsening trend. That’s why we’re working with local law enforcement to prevent illegal riding and to be good fiscal and environmental stewards.”
Goolsby said, “Ninety-nine percent of people who ride ATVs are good people. But it’s that one percent that does the destruction. ALDOT may make an embankment, let’s say, and it takes months to build. ATV drivers will destroy it in three hours.”
In addition to patrolling I-10, Ala. 158 and the new U.S. 98 bypass for ALDOT, deputies also have focused enforcement ef forts along the Escatawpa River, McDonald Road and Padgett Switch Road.
Goolsby said deputies, about six to 10 a shift, ride on horseback, in boats and in vehicles to spot drivers beckoned by wooded areas, dirt roads and construction zones.
Though ALDOT just extended its hand to the Sheriff’s Office this month, Goolsby said, he and other deputies began combating illegal ATVs about three years ago after complaints began pouring in from residents whose property had been damaged.
“It’s been this way for a while,” Goolsby said. “It starts up in the spring each year and then after Labor Day, it calms down.
“Some have been riding for years, and their attitude is, ‘I didn’t do that damage, I’m just riding the trail,’” he continued. “Every one of them is actually doing the damage. They are compounding the damage.”
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Cleveland school fight lands 9 in jail www.privateofficer.com
A district spokeswoman says the incident involved a fight among girls that had started off campus last night and carried over into the school.
Cleveland police officers assigned to the building used pepper spray to help break up the fight. A Cleveland Metropolitan School District security officer was hurt assisting officers. The injuries were described as minor.
The nine students were booked on aggravated riot and criminal activity on school property charges.
The school was then placed on lockdown.
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Deputy sheriff resigns after wife steals patrol car www.privateofficer.com
Deputy Charles Buckner, 44, turned in his badge after his wife, Gail Buckner, 38, allegedly used the car for a joy ride in Lakeland with her mother, Sharon Cooper, 54, and a friend, Alexander James Quintasket, 19, also a convicted a felon, The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Tuesday.
The two women were charged with vehicle theft, theft of a firearm and impersonating a law-enforcement officer, arrest documents said.
The three were arrested Sunday after another sheriff’s deputy spotted the patrol car driving erratically and followed it to the Buckner home, the Sentinel reported, adding no information was immediately available on Gail Buckner and Quintasket’s convictions.
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Security officer charged in UPS thefts www.privateofficer.com
Berea, OH April 29 2009By: Rick McCann
Private Officer News Network
http://www.privateofficer.com/ – A security guard whose job it was to monitor a UPS warehouse was caught on camera– stealing cameras!
Police have arrested Michael Mencke is also accused of stealing a GPS unit, a cell phone and more.
Apparently Mr. Mencke was taken into custody after UPS authorities discovered the thefts when they reviewed the video.
Mencke failed to appear in court and has been rearrested.
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TSA to take over some subway security duties www.privateofficer.com
The New York Police Department is shrinking, and the department can’t hire the number of cops it would like to.
Fox 5 News has learned that help is coming from security screeners at the area airports.
They’ll be replacing some police officers in the subway who do bag searches.
But some critics say this is just another clear example that the economy has affected security.
Within the next two months, Transportation Security Administration bag screeners from Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark Liberty airports will be replacing most NYPD cops in the subway that screen bags for explosives.
Because of the police officer shortage, the NYPD needs to take these police officers and put them on the street to fight crime.
The TSA would not confirm this program is taking place, but did tell Fox 5 News that a program like this would not affect safety at area airports.
This is how it would work: About 30 TSA screeners a day will be pulled from the three area airports Monday through Friday to inspect bags at various subway locations throughout the city.
At each location they’ll be teamed up with one police officer instead of the two or three officers you currently see at inspection sites.
The Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association is blasting the plan, saying despite the city’s financial crisis the city needs to hire more cops.
According to the PBA, the city has 4,000 fewer cops on the street than it did in 2001.
“There are not enough police officers in New York City to effectively fight crime and terrorism simultaneously and (having to implement) this kind of program is verification of that fact,” the PBA said in a statement.
Plus the union says searching bags in a subway could turn “dangerous and deadly,” which TSA screeners aren’t trained or armed to handle.
The TSA workers have had three hours of classroom training regarding legal issues and subway safety and three hours of training on the equipment used to screen bags.
Officials, the NYPD has said this not a done deal yet, even though sources have told Fox 5 that it is going to happen.
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Hospital security aids in capture of carjacking suspect www.privateofficer.com
Early Sunday morning, Roseville Police officers arrested a woman on suspicion of carjacking and several other charges.
At 1:11 a.m. Sunday, April 26, Roseville Police officers responded to a carjacking that had just occurred in the parking lot of Kaiser Hospital, 1600 Eureka Rd.
Kaiser’s security staff followed the stolen vehicle, keeping Roseville police dispatchers informed about its location until Roseville Police officers arrived in the area. The suspect evaded officers, driving in a reckless manner from East Roseville Parkway through residential neighborhoods in Granite Bay. Officers stopped and arrested the suspect in the 9800 block of Wesbourne Way in Granite Bay.
Amber Arlene Page, 29, no permanent address, was arrested on suspicion of carjacking, robbery, vehicle theft, making criminal threats, assault with a deadly weapon, recklessly evading a police officer, resisting arrest and driving under the influence of alcohol. She is being held in the Placer County Jail on $75,000 bail.
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Security officer shoots, kills bank robber www.privateofficer.com
Police said events unfolded just after 11:30 a.m. at the Bank of the West in the shopping center parking lot, which is located at 4950 Pacific Avenue.
According to police, the armored car employee entered the bank just as the robbery was taking place. There was a confrontation, police said, and the alleged robber, a man in his 30s, was shot. He did not survive, police said.
Diane Kern was at a bank teller’s window when the shooting happened behind her.
“All of a sudden I heard a bang, and between the two of us, we jumped. It’s scary. I turned around and he was laying there on the ground,” Kern said.
For much of the day, police investigators detained and questioned a woman who was with the suspected bank robber. She didn’t go in the bank, and police said she didn’t know a robbery was taking the place. She was the wife of the dead man and will not be arrested, police said.
Triple murder leaves small Alabama community in shock www.privateofficer.com
A man wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of three persons in south Baldwin County on Saturday night was killed Sunday afternoon in a high-speed gunbattle with deputies on Interstate 10, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said.
William Odel Wood II, 37, of Semmes, was shot in the eastbound lanes of I-10 between the north Interstate 65 off-ramp and the on-ramp lanes from the southbound I-65. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Cochran said. None of the deputies involved was injured.
Wood had been the object of a manhunt since about 11 p.m. Saturday, when Fairhope police were called to Speed Tech Automotive, a combination home and business on U.S. 98 in the Barnwell community south of Fairhope
Police and Baldwin County deputies found four persons shot at the location. Three of the four were pronounced dead at the scene, and the fourth, a 33-year-old woman, was able to identify Wood as the man who attacked them with a high-powered rifle.
Names of the victims have not been released pending notification of relatives.
Cochran said a member of the U.S. Marshals Service assisting the investigation got word that Wood was in the Bayleys Corner community near Ala. 193 and Fowl River Road Sunday afternoon.
An undercover officer spotted Wood’s black 1994 Chevrolet Blazer in the area about 3:30 p.m. and followed it north on Ala. 193 from a distance while calling for assistance, Cochran said.
When Wood reached the Rangeline Road section of Ala. 193, he realized he was being followed and sped up, and eventually marked deputy cars began pursuing him as well, according to Cochran.
The chase intensified as Wood turned onto eastbound I-10. There is about a three-mile stretch of freeway between Rangeline Road and the next exit, the I-65 interchange.
Along this stretch, Cochran said, Wood’s truck clipped another vehicle but did not injure the occupant, and he also accelerated to speeds reaching 100 mph.
Near the Riviere du Chien Road overpass, Wood opened fire on the two deputies pursuing him, Cochran said, and the deputies returned fire. After the gunfight, Wood’s Blazer was left turned partly around on the north shoulder of the road.
Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson said Wood used both a high-powered rifle and a pistol to fire on the deputies. “While the investigation is still going on, it appears to be a justified, clean shooting,” Tyson said.
Neither Tyson nor Cochran would identify the deputies involved in the shooting. Both said it was Wood who fired first.
Tyson noted Wood was a man with serious personal troubles. He said Wood suffered from a disease that required him to wear a colostomy bag.
A colostomy is a surgical procedure that attaches a part of the colon to the abdominal wall, leaving the patient with an opening on the abdomen where the bag is attached.
Tyson said Wood’s son was killed in a traffic accident in front of the same location where the triple homicide took place.
In March, William Austin Wood, 4, was killed when a pickup truck driven by a neighbor, 41-year-old John Michael Burnette, struck the boy, according to Alabama State Troopers.
Jesse Warrick, in an interview last month, said Melanie Wood, the boy’s mother, was watching William and his 9-year-old sister when William went into the road to catch up with a skateboard.
Online court records indicate Wood was arrested in February on charges of first-degree burglary and attempted murder in connection with what police said was a drug-related stabbing in Saraland. Records show Wood was released on bail on those charges, and his case was bound over to the grand jury earlier this month.
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Police charge two with felony theft at JC Penney www.privateofficer.com
Local police have arrested two women on felony theft charges after St. Cloud Police responded to a shoplifting complaint.
Officers said that they were dispatched at 8 p.m. Friday to the J.C. Penney, 4201 Division St. W, St. Cloud.
An investigation by loss prevention agents showed that the two had taken about $1,100 worth of merchandise from the store. Agents were able to apprehend the suspects as they left and detain them in the security officer until police could arrive.
Denise Feather, 33, of Minneapolis and Karla Roberts, 27, of St. Louis Park were arrested during the investigation, according to the police report.
Feather faces possible felony theft charges and Roberts faces a possible charge of felony aiding and abetting theft. Both women were taken to Stearns County Jail.
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Hospital disturbance lands man in jail www.privateofficer.com
Santa Barbara Ca. April 28 2009
They informed officers that the suspect, a 24-year-old man, frequently goes to the emergency room seeking narcotics.
On this particular occasion, the suspect complained of stomach pain. Despite being treated and released, he refused to leave the hospital.
Security officials escorted him off the property, but he turned around and tried to push past them.
Hospital security used pepper spray to subdue the 24-year-old until police arrived. Authorities booked the man into jail on $2,500 bail for disturbing the peace.
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GA. Target store shopper killed in parking lot www.privateofficer.com
Police said the victim, identified as 25-year-old Heather Struble, had just picked up her 18-month-old son during a custody swap outside the store at 1905 Scenic Highway.
“The person who dropped the child off had driven away and another person in the parking lot apparently walked over and approached the lady,” said Chief Roy Whitehead of the Snellville Police Department.
Witnesses told the police they saw Struble arguing with the man.
“They didn’t hear specific words, it was just loud and very animated; that is what was reported to us,” said Whitehead.
With the child strapped into a safety seat inside the Struble’s Chevrolet Tahoe SUV, the man pulled a gun and opened fire.
“He apparently pulled a weapon and shot her in the head and then he walked away,” Whitehead said.
Police said the killer was wearing a wig and a fake mustache.
Investigators hope security cameras at the store will give them a look at the gunman.
The child was not hurt and was picked up by relatives.
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Chargers player Phillips arrested by security after assault www.privateofficer.com
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Chargers linebacker Shaun Phillips was cited for misdemeanor battery early Saturday morning after a security guard at a rooftop bar in downtown San Diego said the linebacker hit him in the face, police said.
The incident was reported about 1:25 a.m. at the Ivy Hotel on F Street, San Diego police said.
Police spokeswoman Mónica Muñoz said there was a brawl at the bar that precipitated the incident. She said neither Phillips nor any other Charger was involved in the brawl.
In a written report on the incident, San Diego police Officer J. Denny said he and another officer responded to a call about a fight at the Ivy.
Denny said that a security guard had been called to the rooftop bar to break up a fight, and that Phillips “used his right hand to hit (the guard) in the left side of his face.”
The security guard placed Phillips under citizen’s arrest for battery, Denny said, and the officer later cited Phillips and released him on his written promise to appear for a misdemeanor arraignment.
It was the second time this month that Phillips, 27, was involved in a battery incident, police said.
Officers said that on April 11, a security guard at the Stingaree club on Sixth Avenue said Phillips choked and punched him. The guard reported the incident several hours later.
Phillips was named as a suspect but was not arrested or cited, Muñoz said.
James Brennan, owner of the Stingaree, said yesterday that the April 11 incident was “blown way out of proportion” and involved Shaun Phillips’brother, not Phillips. He said the security guard has since “recanted” his statement to police that he was assaulted.
“After speaking with our security guard, he agreed that he was maybe a little out of line on what his memory was of how the incident took place, and he has since dropped the charges and moved on,” Brennan said.
Phillips yesterday denied that he had anything to do with the incident at the Ivy.
“It was somebody else’s mishap. It had nothing to do with me or my teammates,” Phillips said.
He confirmed that he received a citation and said the officer was “just doing his job based on one person’s account.”
“There is video of the whole thing, and it won’t show me anywhere in the vicinity,” Phillips said.
He also said that the incident at the Stingaree was “another misunderstanding” and pointed out he was not cited or taken into custody. He said fingers are pointed at him only because he is a “recognizable face.”
“You don’t see me in handcuffs, don’t see me in the back of a police car,” Phillips said.
Blake Marnell, 44, said he was walking home early Saturday after a late dinner following a Padres game and saw police officers outside the Ivy talking to a man in a Bentley as a security guard stood by. Marnell said he heard someone say that the car’s driver was Phillips.
When officers asked the security guard if he wanted to press charges, Marnell said the the guard said yes.
Marnell said Chargers player Shawne Merriman also was outside the hotel and he heard him talking on his cell phone, asking for someone to come to the hotel to assist them. He said he heard police officers saying to each other that Merriman was not involved.
An officer wrote the driver of the Bentley a ticket, and the driver shook hands with the officer and drove off, Marnell said.
Police then got a camera and took pictures of the security guard’s face, Marnell said.
Everything appeared orderly and businesslike, Marnell said, and he did not see police conducting any kind of sobriety tests.
Merriman said yesterday that he was called to the hotel to help a teammate, but he declined further comment.
A spokeswoman for the Ivy said the establishment had no comment.
In a statement, Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith said yesterday: “It’s disappointing to hear about the issue involving Shaun Phillips. We’ll continue to monitor the situation and let the legal process run its course.”
Phillips also was arrested in April 2006 for an altercation with a patrol officer in San Diego. The City Attorney’s Office declined to file charges after reviewing the case.
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Ohio music teacher charged for sex with student www.privateofficer.com
Monday, 35-year-old Barry Valentine was arraigned on a rape charge. Mentor Police say Valentine forced a then 15-year-old student into an unwanted sexual relationship. The first alleged assault happened at band camp, at Memorial Junior High, in the summer of 2007.
Valentine was arrested Friday, after the alleged victim told her parents. The Mentor School District removed Valentine from their faculty.
Dr. Jacqueline Hoynes, The Mentor Schools Superintendent says, “we are outraged and saddened that a teacher in our district allegedly abused his position of trust to victimize a student and we’ll continue to offer our full cooperation with the police to ensure that this individual is brought to justice and to make sure no other students were harmed in any way.”
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Hotel security officer assaulted, man charged www.privateofficer.com
By: Rick McCann
According to the security officer, Stephen James Malloney, 37, of 183 Lander Lane, was asked to leave the pool but refused to do so.
Malloney became loud and threatening and then assaulted the security officer and police was called.
Malloney is charged with simple assault and public intoxication.
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OFFICER DOWN TEXAS
Lubbock County Sheriff’s Department
Texas
End of Watch: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Date of Incident: Sunday, April 26, 2009
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available
Deputy Robert Harvey was killed in an automobile accident on CR 2100 while responding to a fight in progress call.
The driver of a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction attempted to make a left turn in front of Deputy Harvey’s patrol car, and caused a head-on collision.
Deputy Harvey was trapped in his patrol car as it became engulfed in flames.The two occupants of the other vehicle were injured in the crash.
The deputy is survived by his wife and two children.
Agency Contact Information
Lubbock County Sheriff’s Department
811 Main Street
Lubbock, TX 79408
Phone: (806) 775-1400
Please contact the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Department for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.
OFFICER DOWN FLORIDA
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
Florida
End of Watch: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 44
Tour of Duty: 2 years
Badge Number: 260
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Shot and killed
Deputy Skip York and Deputy Burt Lopez were shot and killed while attempting arrest a domestic violence suspect.
The deputies were following up on a domestic assault report they had taken hours earlier, and located the suspect at a gun club in Crestview. The suspect was in the parking lot standing next to his truck. Deputy Lopez and Deputy York approached the suspect, had a brief conversation with him, and then informed him he was going to be arrested. As the deputies moved to handcuff the him, he became uncooperative and began to resist arrest. Deputy York fired his Taser (conducted energy device) and hit the suspect. The suspect dropped to the ground during the five-second jolt of electricity. When the Taser cycle ended, the suspect immediately drew a concealed handgun and opened fire. Deputy Lopez was able to radio for assistance while he and Deputy York engaged the suspect in a gun battle.
During the exchange of gunfire, Deputy Lopez was mortally wounded. The suspect then climbed in his truck to escape. Deputy York pulled the passenger-side door open and jumped inside in an effort to pull the suspect from the vehicle, but was shot and mortally wounded.
The suspect fled the scene and opened fire at deputies from the Walton County Sheriff’s Department during a vehicle pursuit. The suspect’s vehicle was rammed by deputies, causing it to flip over near the intersection of U.S. Highway 331 and U.S. 90 in DeFuniak Springs. The suspect exited the truck, and opened fire at the deputies, who returned fire, killing the suspect.
Deputies York and Lopez were airlifted to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. They succumbed to their injuries later in the day.
Deputy York had served with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office for two years. He is survived by his wife and children.
Related Line of Duty Deaths Deputy Sheriff Burton (Burt) Lopez
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, FL
EOW: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Agency Contact Information
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
1250 Eglin Parkway
Shalimar, FL 32579
Phone: (850) 651-7410
Please contact the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.
OFFICER DOWN NORTH CAROLINA
Vance County Sheriff’s Office
North Carolina
End of Watch: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 27
Tour of Duty: 2 years, 3 months
Badge Number: S-22
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Date of Incident: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available
Deputy Brandon Coker was killed in an automobile accident while attempting to intercept a reckless driver. His patrol car ran off of the road on Nutbush Road and struck a tree, causing fatal injuries.
Deputy Coker had served with the Vance County Sheriff’s Office for two years. He is survived by his wife, parents, and four brothers.
Agency Contact Information
Vance County Sheriff’s Office
516 Breckenridge Street
Henderson, NC 27536
Phone: (252) 738-2200
Please contact the Vance County Sheriff’s Office for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.
OFFICER DOWN FLORIDA
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
Florida
End of Watch: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Biographical Info
Age: 44
Tour of Duty: 6 years
Badge Number: 195
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Shot and killed
Deputy Burt Lopez and Deputy Skip York were shot and killed while attempting to arrest a domestic violence suspect.
The deputies were following up on a domestic assault report they had taken hours earlier, and located the suspect at a gun club in Crestview. The suspect was in the parking lot standing next to his truck. Deputy Lopez and Deputy York approached the suspect, had a brief conversation with him, and then informed him he was going to be arrested. As the deputies moved to handcuff the him, he became uncooperative and began to resist arrest. Deputy York fired his Taser (conducted energy device) and hit the suspect. The suspect dropped to the ground during the five-second jolt of electricity. When the Taser cycle ended, the suspect immediately drew a concealed handgun and opened fire. Deputy Lopez was able to radio for assistance while he and Deputy York engaged the suspect in a gun battle.
During the exchange of gunfire, Deputy Lopez was mortally wounded. The suspect then climbed in his truck to escape. Deputy York pulled the passenger-side door open and jumped inside in an effort to pull the suspect from the vehicle, but was shot and mortally wounded.
The suspect fled the scene and opened fire at deputies from the Walton County Sheriff’s Department during a vehicle pursuit. The suspect’s vehicle was rammed by deputies, causing it to flip over near the intersection of U.S. Highway 331 and U.S. 90 in DeFuniak Springs. The suspect exited the truck, and opened fire at the deputies, who returned fire, killing the suspect.
Deputies York and Lopez were airlifted to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. They succumbed to their injuries later in the day.
Deputy Lopez had served with the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office for six years. He is survived by his wife and children.
Related Line of Duty Deaths Deputy Sheriff Warren (Skip) York
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, FL
EOW: Saturday, April 25, 2009
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Agency Contact Information
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
1250 Eglin Parkway
Shalimar, FL 32579
Phone: (850) 651-7410
Please contact the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office for funeral arrangements or for survivor benefit fund information.
